Katy Perry Gladiatrix?

Whom the gods would destroy, they inflict with Katy Perry, I think. First of all (as I was complaining on Facebook the other day), I can no longer watch the local news because it has an ad for a radio station which implants an earworm of Katy Perry’s ‘California Girls’ (or whatever) every time I hear it. Now my spiders bring back a story of the same Katy Perry donning gladiator gear in her next video. Here’s a photo:

via the Daily Mail

Not quite my image of a gladiatrix, but your mileage may vary. The full story:

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